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Ewer with a Handle in the Shape of Two Snakes encircling a Man Holding a Sea Shell by his Mouth to form the Spout, from Vases after the Antique

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Engraving [second state]
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1953
Title: Ewer with a Handle in the Shape of Two Snakes encircling a Man Holding a Sea Shell by his Mouth to form the Spout, from Vases after the Antique
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Engraving [second state].

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